Phineas Quimby Quotes

#1. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineas Quimby

#2. The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

Phineas Quimby

#3. One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.

Phineas Quimby

#4. It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Phineas Quimby

#5. Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

Phineas Quimby

#6. The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Phineas Quimby